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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1997
Page
7
Yuri Repin, 40, head of Kutuzovsky Bank, was shot multiple times outside his home in western Moscow Tuesday night, Interfax cites Moscow police in a report from AP.
Steve Fossett, 52, a Chicago securities trader pursuing a nonstop circumnavigation by balloon, shifted course toward North Africa after Russia denied airspace entry. He was about 600 miles southeast of Bermuda on day two after liftoff from St. Louis in the Solo Spirit craft.
In 1995 two American balloonists died when Belarusian forces shot them down after they entered Belarus airspace without permission during an international race. Balloons drift with wind. pilots alter altitude to catch currents. Fossett planned a Poland Belarus and Russia crossing but shifted from 18 000 to 22 000 feet to reach a southern corridor over Algeria Morocco and Libya.
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